I'm not - strictly speaking - a Linux newbie (5 years ago, I began with Fedora, then switched to Debian and finally settled on Mint), but I'm far form being a guru

I use LMDE/64bits (amd64), and I've encountered a strange problem recently : Using Synaptic, I installed acroread without any problem, along with the firefox plugin - which I use a lot since for my work I have to access lots of pdf files through the web.All was working smoothly, except that when I closed a firefox tab displaying a pdf file through the plugin, it was impossible to open new pdfs through firefox. The acroread process was marked as "defunct", and I had to hardkill this process to get things working again.

This was a bit difficult to work with, and I thought I made an error during installation. Thus I uninstalled every acrobat-related package, cleaned everything, searched the web for possible mistakes I made, found nothing and then prepared to reinstall...

And now, Synaptic (or apt-get install) is not listing me the acroread package as available... It indeed lists the "acroread-data", the "acroread-l10n-en" and so on, but no acroread anymore...

I didn't touch the repository list at all, it's the same than during install:

Thanks to both of you, it is now up and running !I didn't notice the change in the update packages, sorry. Thanks for pointing that.

The multi-arch installation went like a breeze, very cool.I just tested the classical distribution and didn't use the adobe package. ia32-libs were already installed, so I too don't know if it was needed by acroread.

Many thanks to you again. You rule

François

(And sorry for having first posted in the wrong location, I hadn't seen there was a specific place for LMDE64...)

the reader is a multiarch package and i don't believe that the --force-architecture -i trick will result; that's one of the reasons they invented this multiarch mess (seamless installation of 32bit pkgs in 64bit systems)

zero, You have been a great help with this however I am in a dependency hell that I am not good enough with linux to figure out. I tried downloading the reader file from the list you had but it had a dependency file it wanted so I downloaded that file and tried to install it but it wanted the original adobe file I downloaded as its dependency.I seem to be in some kind of dependency loop.

no Dan you shouldn't try to download the files directly from the pool;acroread has too many dep for you to cherry-pick each one that way; what i was trying to say is that is odd you cant find it in your repos when it is present in the mirrors you are using and you are up-to-date.